Diamond Alvarez, 16, was shot 22 times on January 11 as she walked the family dog, Peanut, near their Houston home
Her on-off boyfriend Frank DeLeon, 17, was arrested and charged with her murder, and freed on a $250,000 bond
DeLeon was taken into custody on Monday after the ankle monitor he wore reported that he had left his home, where he is under house arrest
On Thursday DeLeon was back in court and freed again after a judge accepted that the ankle monitor was likely faulty
Alvarez's brother Abel lunged at DeLeon in court, and Judge Hazel Jones hit the panic button to call for security to escort Abel out of the courtroom
Alvarez's mother, Anna Machado, said she was frightened for the safety of the family because DeLeon lives two minutes away: 'He's laughing at us,’ she said
#4
This is in Harris County, home to the concentration of Democrats outside of Austin and San Antonio. During the BLM/Antifa riots, the only reason Harris County cracked down on them was they were terrified they'd do something outside of it, where they'd be met with instant and massive violence as humans defended themselves and their homes. Even on the highways, I'd say 30% of people driving are armed and a BLM car party would end in gunshots from multiple vehicles.
#6
About those judges: how many of them are Democrats, and possibly chosen by Democrats because they are young and female and — mostly — persons of a visibly minority persuasion?
#1
picture of the rifles in Daily Mail article shows a portrait of Yakub, the scientist believed by the Nation of Islam to have created the white race some 6k years ago
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Sounds like they accidentally let a clue to his identity and motive slip, Garth.
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We should expect to see more shootings as we get closer to Mid-Terms.
It's like, as IF some mass shootings are stage, planned and or happen on cue for run up to elections.
#4
One pic of a black dude handcuffed and the caption reads: "Metropolitan and Secret Service Police lead a man in handcuffs away from a shooting. Police Chief Stuart Emerman said that they were merely detaining witnesses and had no suspects in custody"
Uh huh
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Does anyone know what the red and white flag on his posts represents?
[WashingtonExaminer] Disney’s stock has lost nearly $50 billion in value since the start of March, when it took a political gamble to oppose Florida’s controversial new education law.
Disney’s stock was down more than 2% on Friday and by more than 8.5% over the past few days as Florida lawmakers work to punish the company for wading into the state’s politics. The stock’s market cap has declined by about $46.6 billion since March 1, just days before the company came out against the legislation.
Disney CEO Bob Chapek said his company would end political donations in the Sunshine State.
Now Republican lawmakers are exacting their revenge.
This week in a 23-16 vote, the GOP-led Senate passed the legislation that would dismantle the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which allows Disney to oversee its own zoning, infrastructure, laws, and policing in the area around its parks. The state House also voted to do so by a 70-38 vote.
So what this means is that most Americans are not on board with grooming infants and toddlers for rape.
[FoxNews] Social media giant Twitter slapped a warning on links to firearms news outlet The Reload, before removing the label several hours later Saturday.
Stephen Gutowski, founder of The Reload, said Saturday his website was being unfairly labeled "unsafe" by Twitter. Gutowski, and others offered screenshots showing a pop-up warning about the site when clicked.
"Why is Twitter blocking The Reload? We were just cited by nearly every news outlet in the country for breaking news on President Biden's handling of the ATF," Gutowski wrote on social media Saturday morning. "The site is operating normally. What is going on?"
Around 11 a.m. ET, Gutowski began telling social media followers that Twitter had fixed the issue and The Reload was no longer being labeled as a potentially "unsafe" site. Users reported the ability to access the site without the pop-up message.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A rare celestial event is taking place. Four planets: Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn are visible in the heavens.
This unusual alignment of planets has been taking form over the past few days, with the arched line-up enjoying its best visibility between 5am and sunrise in the eastern sky tomorrow morning. They can be seen without a telescope, but will ‘disappear’ as soon as the Sun edges over the horizon, obscuring the view.
The Moon today joins the line-up to lead the parade of planets across the pre-dawn sky, becoming most prominent on Monday and Tuesday about one hour before sunrise. And later in June, Mercury will appear as a fifth planet in the parade.
The key moment to watch out for will be the Black Moon Eclipse next weekend. Like a ‘Blue Moon’ denoting a second Full Moon in one month, the equally unusual ‘Black Moon’ is the same phenomenon, but it occurs with New Moons. As the Moon disappears from the night sky, it allows the rest of the heavens to shine brighter.
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Living in balance with nature/Gaia, but also the warm blood and beating hearts of your captives, which is kinda a downside for the losers
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Circle of Life, man!
At one time, those guys were the pinnacle of civilization. We've come a long way, Babies!
Although, I am willing to debate Civil Service job protection vs beating hearts of the losers.
#3
One key to success in a large organization is getting other groups to do your work. Here the cops are off-loading part of their job onto the coroner's office. I don't see a problem.
[Aljazeera] More than 100 people were killed overnight in an explosion at an illegal oil refining depot in Nigeria’s Rivers state, a local government official and an environmental group said.
"The fire outbreak occurred at an illegal bunkering site and it affected more than 100 people who were burned beyond recognition," the state commissioner for petroleum resources, Goodluck Opiah, said on Saturday.
Unemployment and poverty in the oil-producing Niger Delta have made illegal crude refining an attractive business but with deadly consequences. Crude oil is tapped from a web of pipelines owned by major oil companies and refined into products in makeshift tanks.
The hazardous process has led to many fatal accidents and has polluted a region already blighted by oil spills in farmland, creeks and lagoons.
The Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre said several vehicles that were in a queue to buy illegal fuel were burned in the explosion.
Al Jazeera’s Fidelis Mbah said that there are dozens of illegal oil businesses scattered around southern Nigeria.
"The unemployed youth are trying to produce oil on their own in order to sell to survive," he said, speaking from Abuja. "The youths know that this is dangerous but because of the poverty levels, they have taken to [working in] illegal refineries."
"The government said the owner of the illegal refinery is presently on the run and they have declared him wanted," Mbah added. "They’re hoping that if he’s apprehended, they will find out exactly what happened."
At least 25 people, including some children, were killed in an explosion and fire at another illegal refinery in Rivers state in October.
In February, local authorities said they had started a crackdown to try to put a stop to the refining of stolen crude, but with little apparent success.
Rivers State is a diverse state that is home to many ethnic groups, the majority being Igbo or Igboid, but also including the Ogoni and Ijaw.
In 2019, Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike declared Rivers State to be a Christian state because it is made up of 90% Christians and 10% orthodox with few strangers practicing Islam unconventionally.
As I recall, Snowy Thing, the issue in that part of the world is that the oil companies are not sharing their wealth with the locals, supporting them in the style to which they feel keenly entitled.
#3
I was just reflecting upon the fact, a while back, that everyone I used to know who lived and worked in the area basically moved to the South African oilfield to get away from the various forms of repression.
At least 100 people have died after an illegal refinery went kaboom! at Abaezi Forest in the Ohaji-Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State.
The community is at the boundary between Rivers and Imo states.
Many vehicles were also razed during the incident, which had thrown the community into panic.
A source told SaharaReporters that the fire was ignited by a machine used to pump spilled crude into containers waiting to be loaded into their pots.
Commissioner for Petroleum Resources, Goodluck Opiah, who was at the scene of the incident, said that the state government had declared the owner of the illegal refinery, Okenze Onyenwoke, wanted.
He advised the suspect whom he said was on the run to turn himself in at the nearest cop shoppe.
The commissioner said, "This is a sad development. The Imo State Government has declared wanted, Okenze Onyenwoke, who owns this illegal refinery. I advise him to hand himself over to the police or any security agency."
[Townhall] "This weekend marked the 61st Anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion. We honor the memory of the freedom-fighters who bravely faced the communist Cuban regime. Their legacy lives on today." (Tweet by Fl Gov. Ron DeSantis April 17th.)
Outnumbered over ten to one by Soviet-led forces and betrayed by their sponsor, these mostly civilian volunteers fought till the last bullet. In three days of relentless close-quarter fighting they made monkeys of the Soviet commanders at the scene and cannon-fodder of their Cuban lackeys, inflicting losses of 20 to one.
Fidel, Raul, and Che were quite jittery there for awhile, urging caution in the counterattack. From the lethal fury of the attack and the horrendous casualties their troops and militia were taking, the two Soviets satraps assumed they faced at least 20,000 invading "mercenaries," as they called them.
Yet it was a band of mostly civilian volunteers they outnumbered laughably. But to hear Castro's echo chamber (the D.C. beltway media and leftist academics), Fidel was the plucky David and the invaders the bumbling Goliath.
In fact, if JFK wanted some genuine profiles in courage he might have looked at the men he betrayed on that heroic beachhead. Some of most jaw-dropping heroics, however, came after the shooting ended, after they’d spent their last bullets and knew no more were coming from their ally, the most powerful nation on earth. The same one that enforced a "no-fly zone" half a country wide on another continent (Iraq) with half the U.S. Air Force for a decade but refused to provide one three miles across, 90 miles away, for half a day with two planes.
At any rate, the battle was over in three days, but the heroism was not.
Putin's regime is accused of 'covering-up' the death toll after a deadly fire at a weapons research facility
Blaze broke out at the Second Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defence in Tver That’s where they develop new space and weapons systems, specifically the Iskander missile.
Four military scientists were forced to jump out of windows from the building on Thursday
But local journalists claim that 'at least 25' were killed, not 'up to seven' like state media says
#4
How!! Everyone dislikes the dictator war criminal Putin..
Except the Russians people, the Russian military, plus the governments and the peoples of:
China, India, Brazil, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Venezuela, Sri Lanka, Cuba, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Belarus, North Korea, Uganda, Nicaragua, Senegal, Madagascar, Central Africa Republic, Iraq, Mongolia, Namibia, Azerbaijan, Mexico, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Serbia, Iran, Bolivia, Bangladesh, Burundi, Congo, plus the majority of American conservatives, and American independents population…….that’s almost 90% of the world population…
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"Anybody who's popular is bound to be disliked."
- Yogi Berra
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^ Well, that does it for me! If Kyrgyrgyrgystan, Mongolia, and Burundi disapprove, I'm ummm...
/No, really? That's our best Sunday trolling?
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North Korea. Definitely a friendship to be proud of. Though to be fair, North Korea is equally a protectorate of Russia and Communist China, each hoping the other will take over when the music stops.
#8
We Rus are in love with our Tsar...
Whom we hate. Lenin's greater by far!
Okay, Djukashvili
Is better. Not really...
But Putin is perfect. Yay, war!
this is from militaryland.net another more or less neutral site is understandingwar.com both these have narrative and maps
livemap.com ukraine has interactive maps also
- Ukraine has counterattacked and taken some territory North of Kharkiv. If this continues it threatens part of the Russia supply lines.
- Russia continues to attack on numerous points along the front but has gained little today, although yesterday they had some 4 km advances
- Russia has broken off active battle against the Ukraine holdouts in Mariupol for the past two days. Russia admits it has taken heavy casualties in this sector. Russia says they will stave the defenders out (which also means starving civilians) and send some of the attacking forces there to other parts of the Ukraine.
- Lots of bombardment by both Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine claimed a major hit on a Russian command post in the south near Kherson.
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[KYIVINDEPENDENT] On April 23, two months into Russia’s all-out-war against Ukraine, one metro station in Kyiv got crowded again.President Volodymyr Zelensky gave an unusual presser for Ukrainian and foreign journalists on the platform of the Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) metro station in the heart of Ukraine’s capital.
The most emotional moment of his two-hour-long talk came when Zelensky addressed Russian attack on Odesa hours earlier. It killed eight people, including a 3-month-old child.
"Stinking bastards," Zelensky repeatedly called the Russians over the Odesa attack, adding that Moscow slid into Nazism.
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#1
Zelensky the great peace maker. He will survive this but in a country such as USA to wage his verbals for eternity. No bunker for this showman. The show must go on, perhaps on Netflix. Stay tuned after this commercial break.
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Remember when "empire" was a bad thing, and "American Empire" was the worst as far as the left was concerned?
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We've been bitching for decades about how woeful our alllies in various wars have been both militarily and politically -- South Korea at the beginning, then the South Vietnamese, then the post-Saddam Iraqis, then the Afghans. Now, for a real change of pace, we're watching a quasi-allied (???) army beating the snot -- so far -- out of the mighty Red Army. The Ukrainians are going to provide the next generation of instructors at Ranger School and the War College. "Drone Tactics 101"
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[Korrespondent] 23:20 In the east of Ukraine, the invaders captured international military observers from the OSCE. "The OSCE is extremely concerned that a number of members of the national SMM mission [Special Monitoring Mission] have been deprived of their liberty in Donetsk and Lugansk," the organization said. They also reported that they are using all available channels to release their employees.
23:16 US officials refuse to comment to the American media on Zelensky's statement about Blinken and Austin's visit to Ukraine, writes UP.
23:09 For the first time in history, the head of the National Bank of Ukraine was invited to a meeting of the General Council of the European Central Bank, the NBU hopes to participate in them regularly, the press service of the Ukrainian regulator said.
23:04 Russia wants to arrange a parade of Ukrainian prisoners on May 9th. This is a very serious violation of the Geneva Convention and all the rules of war, Arestovich said.
23:01 French Economy Minister Bruno Le Mer said on BFMTV that the EU member states will soon decide on a complete cessation of Russian oil imports.
22:11 Over the past day, the JFO forces in Donbass have successfully repelled 12 enemy attacks, the Ministry of Defense reports. In particular, four tanks, five artillery systems, 15 armored vehicles, one armored combat vehicle and four vehicles were destroyed.
Air defense units in the sky over the Ukrainian Donbas shot down one Su-25 aircraft, one cruise missile and three Orlan-10 UAVs.
22:02 On its own initiative, the Berlin division of the Polish Pilecki Institute has joined the collection of evidence of war crimes of Russians in Ukraine. This institution is engaged, in particular, in the study and preservation of the historical experience of the Poles in the era of totalitarianism. The institute is named after the Polish officer Witold Pilecki, who risked his life to document the events in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, writes Reuters.
21:56 Zelensky ended the press conference with the words: "We'll meet when we liberate Mariupol. I think soon."
21:54 Zelensky on Russia's plans: "Can a new Mariupol happen in Odessa? Yes, maybe they have thousands of tanks and equipment, they have plans for a corridor to Moldova. I don't believe they will stop."
21:52 Zelensky said that, according to preliminary data, the Russians have already deported to Russia about 500,000 Ukrainians, including about 5,000 children.
21:50 Ukraine and Poland will create a logistics railway center, Shmyhal said. According to him, this will allow "drastically increasing the volume of rail transportation of Ukrainian exports to the EU and to world markets through Europe."
21:47 Zelensky on weapons: "Now we see a change in relation to Western partners. I especially see changes in the speed of the United States. And if this speed is increased in the same way as we are promised, if the steps coincide with the words, like any decent person and a leader, we will de-occupy our territories faster."
21:44 Zelensky about Abramovich: "I know that he is a member of the Russian negotiating group. As far as I know, he was in Kiev. I am not ready to discuss the format of his meetings."
21:41 Zelensky on nuclear weapons: “I don’t think that an adequate person can use nuclear weapons. If the Russian leadership does not lose touch with reality, they will not use nuclear weapons. Could it be from Russia, it can. Do I believe I don't want to believe in it. If we had nuclear weapons, then Ukraine would never use them. Because we are adequate people. Any head of state who put his finger on the button would simply be demolished by society ... But the risks of starting a war on the part of Russia would be minimized."
21:30 Zelensky said that Britain agreed to help rebuild the Kyiv region after the war, Sweden - the Mykolaiv region.
21:24 In Odessa, during today's shelling, rockets hit one of the city cemeteries, more than 1000 square meters were destroyed. m of territory, said the mayor of the city Gennady Trukhanov.
21:16 Bloomberg writes that Abramovich did not live up to Washington's expectations as a mediator in the negotiations between Kiev and Moscow, and therefore the United States returned to the issue of imposing sanctions against him.
21:04 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that the special services of Ukraine were preparing a provocation with the use of chemical substances in the area of the Odessa port of Yuzhny: "Kyiv can simulate a missile attack by the Russian Armed Forces on the base of the Ukrainian Navy, as a result of which the cold storage facility of the port in Odessa will be blown up."
20:57 Yermak on "security assurances" instead of guarantees: "Enough of "assurances". Ukraine needs real security guarantees. There will be no Budapest-2. Anyone who strives for this, despite Bucha, Odessa, Mariupol, despite the pain of other cities , despite the thousands of killed, tortured, raped people, children, has no mind or heart."
20:52 Kiev and Moscow already have a draft joint declaration, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said.
20:50 Zelensky said that seven rockets hit Odessa, killing eight people.
20:47 Zelensky about the tribunal for Putin: "I'm sure they will appear - everyone who gave these shameful orders to destroy people, children, everyone. I believe in it. We know how the international process, the international court is going. It lasts years. We will wait. And if people like me do not wait, then our children will definitely wait. Believe me, I am sure that there will be the last nail in the politics of this state."
20:44 Zelensky: "I do not consider the option that the partners will not give us the promised weapons. We will not give them this alternative. Because we have no other choice."
20:43 Zelensky called the absence of Ukraine in NATO a strategic mistake, as it would strengthen the alliance.
20:42 Zelensky said that the war in Ukraine is unlike any other: "This is a different war, this war cannot be compared with any in the 20th century, there has never been such a war."
"There has never been such a war. There has never been such destruction in any of the wars waged by the Russian Federation. There has never been such an amount of heavy equipment and such military rudeness, violence. So fate fell that Ukraine can stop it. But you you need to help us. They will finish with us, they will take care of you," the president told a journalist from Azerbaijan.
20:41 Zelensky reaffirmed that he wants to meet with Putin to stop the war in Ukraine: "I want to stop the war and end it. There is a diplomatic path, there is a military path. Any healthy person always chooses the diplomatic path."
20:40 Zelensky: "The most pressing issues are guarantees of security and neutrality, the fate of Donbass and Crimea. I believe that there are no more questions."
20:37 Zelensky announced that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin would arrive in Ukraine on April 24.
20:36 Zelensky said that Ukraine has already become like Israel: "Is Ukraine ready to be like Israel? Most Ukrainians are not just ready - we have no way out, we have already become such a state. When we win, we will be a state with the most powerful army" .
20:35 Zelensky on the situation in Mariupol: "We offer a humanitarian solution to the issue of Mariupol - the exchange of civilians, the wounded. We are also ready for the exchange of our military defending Mariupol. We have proposed any format for resolving this issue."
He also stressed that " Ukraine is not capable of a military deblockade of Mariupol now , and the Ukrainian military who are stationed there understand this."
20:34 Zelensky: "As soon as we have more weapons, we will go ahead and return our territories. Everything that they break through or temporarily occupy, we will return. And this will not be in decades."
20:33 Zelensky said that Ukraine will return the ambassador to Georgia when the leaders of this country become friendly with Ukraine.
20:32 Zelensky: "If our people are destroyed in Mariupol, if pseudo-referendums are held in the occupied territories, Ukraine will withdraw from the negotiations."
20:06 Zelensky gives a press conference for the Ukrainian media:
19:59 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that "high-precision long-range air-launched missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces disabled the logistics terminal at a military airfield near Odessa, where a large batch of foreign weapons received from the United States and European countries was stored."
19:33 In the Mountain community of the Lugansk region (Zolotoye district), six civilians were killed today, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
19:32 Shelling continues in Kharkov and the region, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. According to him, Northern Saltovka and Saltovka suffered the most in the regional center. Streets, residential buildings, warehouses are being shelled. According to preliminary data, six people were wounded in Kharkiv, and one more was wounded in the Chuguevsky district. Three died - in the Chuguevsky and Dergachevsky districts.
19:26 Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said that his country would send scientific and forensic experts to Ukraine who would collect evidence and verify the facts of Russian war crimes in the de-occupied territories of the north for the International Criminal Court.
He also said that Italy, together with Turkey, is ready to act as a guarantor of an agreement on the security and neutrality of Ukraine.
The minister argues that from an economic point of view, the war in Ukraine has already become a world war, and Rome is participating in an important initiative to eliminate dependence on Russian gas. In his opinion, if the European "ceiling" of gas prices is not set, the problem of its cost will not be solved. The ceiling will stop financial speculation.
19:23 Turkey closed the skies for Russian military and civilian aircraft flying to Syria. The flight permit was issued for three months and expired in April, Foreign Minister Cavusoglu said.
19:18 Poland has provided Ukraine with military equipment worth over $1.6 billion, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said.
19:16 The governor of the Kursk region said that the checkpoint on the border was fired from Ukraine, there were no casualties.
19:01 Zelensky and Johnson discussed new military assistance to Ukraine. It will include the provision of heavy weapons to Kyiv, Yermak said.
18:48 The Zaporizhzhya District Military District reported about the shelling of the city of Vasylivka at about 15:30 today. A rocket of the Hurricane system hit a residential building in the city center, but did not explode. There were no casualties, but the house was partially destroyed. The shelling was carried out from the side of the city of Burchak, which is under occupation.
18:41 In the Lugansk region, the invaders are trying to take control of Popasna, Rubizhne and are preparing for an attack on Severodonetsk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
18:35 During the shelling of Odessa, a rocket hit a 16-storey residential building, followed by the fire of apartments on the fourth and fifth floors. The fire was extinguished for more than two hours, the State Emergency Service said.
Currently, six people are known to have died, including one child, and 18 people were injured. Two people were rescued from the rubble, 86 people were evacuated.
17:47 Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz of Ukraine Yuriy Vitrenko said about the risk of losing a third of transit to the EU due to the actions of the invaders in the occupied territories: "According to our estimates, a third of the volume of gas exported from Russia to the EU through Ukraine will be lost if the occupying forces do not stop disrupting our stations in the recently occupied territories."
17:43 Deputy Mayor of Dnipro Mikhail Lysenko said that the authorities would confiscate "high-speed" cars from those who like to arrange races around the city: "I explain - the patrol police stopped you, wave your car. Perhaps you can see it in Donetsk or Lugansk region under control of our Armed Forces. You have all been warned. No one will help."
17:35 The occupants again disrupted the evacuation from Mariupol, said the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko. At least 200 Mariupol residents came to the collection point, waiting for evacuation in Zaporozhye. Instead of the promised buses, the military of the Russian Federation drove up to them and ordered them to disperse, because now there will be shelling.
At the same time, the occupants moved buses to a point near the Metro shopping center (200 meters from the agreed evacuation point near Port City) and began loading. After loading, the residents of Mariupol were told that there would only be "evacuation" to Dokuchaevsk, that is, to the occupied territory. People were not allowed to get off the bus. In response to questions, the invaders said that "the nationalists fired at the evacuation point."
17:31 On April 22, the Armed Forces of Ukraine dealt a crushing blow to the forward command post of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Federation, which, "contrary to combat installations and common sense," was located at a slight distance from the line of combat clashes in the Kherson region, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports.
As a result, PPU 49A was destroyed, two generals of the invaders were eliminated , one was seriously wounded, and was evacuated in critical condition.
17:27 In Odessa, after today's shelling, there are already five dead , including a three-month-old child, and 18 wounded Ukrainian citizens. "These are only those who were found. And, most likely, there will be more," Yermak wrote.
17:25 The governor of the Sumy region Dmitry Zhivitsky reported on the shelling of border communities from the territory of Russia.
17:24 In the Dnipropetrovsk region, a Russian rocket hit the outskirts of one of the villages and left behind a huge crater. No one was hurt, Governor Reznichenko said.
17:15 Air command Pivden reported that today from 14:00 to 15:00 Ukrainian air defense destroyed two enemy cruise missiles (preliminarily X555 or X101), which were fired at Odessa from TU-95 strategic aircraft of the Russian Federation from the Caspian Sea. Two UAVs of the operational-tactical level were also destroyed.
16:21 As a result of the shelling of the center of the city of Zolote, Luhansk region, two people were killed, two more were injured. It was possible to evacuate 15 local residents, including eight with disabilities. Artillery shells hit residential buildings, Gaidai said.
16:18 Kuleba commented on today's Russian missile strikes: "The only goal of Russian missile strikes on Odessa is terror. Russia must be recognized as a state sponsor of terrorism, and it must be treated accordingly. No business, no contacts, no cultural projects. We need a wall between civilization and barbarians who hit civilian cities with missiles."
16:09 Russian media report that on the evening of April 22, a train with 308 refugees from Mariupol arrived in Nakhodka (Primorsky Krai, southeastern Russia).
Andryushchenko also reports that on April 8, Russia deported 466 Mariupol residents to Cheboksary (Chuvashia), including 106 children.
16:00 Russian occupiers fired at least six cruise missiles at Odessa, several were shot down. At least one rocket fell and exploded, hitting residential buildings. It is already known for sure about one dead person - he burned to death in his car in the courtyard of the house, according to Anton Gerashchenko.
15:55 The invaders began forced mobilization, including doctors, in the occupied territories of Kherson, Zaporozhye and Kharkiv regions. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, in Volchansk, Kharkiv region, junior medical personnel are forcibly sent to the front line to provide assistance to Russian wounded. If they refuse, they are threatened with execution.
The mobilization of youth from among the local population in the occupied territories of Kherson, Zaporozhye and Kharkiv regions has also begun. To do this, the possibility of leaving the Kherson region to the territories controlled by Ukraine is almost completely blocked. Significantly limited the ability to travel in the direction of the Russian Federation.
In the Zaporozhye region, Russian military personnel and FSB officers are looking for people of military age - they must replenish the composition of the combat units of the Russian Federation in the most problematic areas.
15:53 In Kiev, metro trains for the duration of the air alert will suspend movement on the ground section on the red line, and on the green line they will not run across the South Bridge, the Kyiv City State Administration reported.
15:51 Information about Easter events from the OP:
15:21 A missile strike was inflicted on Odessa - it hit infrastructure facilities, Mayor Gennady Trukhanov said. He asked not to distribute photos and videos so as not to help the enemy.
14:50 A conference will be held in Germany on April 26 to discuss support for Ukraine. More than 20 countries out of about 40 invited have confirmed their participation, writes Bild. US Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby said earlier that this is not only about NATO countries, and this meeting is not taking place under the auspices of the alliance.
14:36 IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi from April 26 will be at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant at the head of a mission of experts to control the supply of vital equipment and conduct radiological and other measurements at the de-occupied facility.
14:21 The World Bank will allocate $170 billion to countries indirectly affected by the war in Ukraine over the next 15 months. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said her country, together with partners, "secured the largest World Bank financial commitment in the history of low-income countries around the world - to support those facing economic hardship as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
13:59 The war in Ukraine has already affected about 25% of world grain trade and led to higher prices and reduced access to food in importing countries from Ukraine and Russia, First Deputy Minister of Agricultural Policy Taras Vysotsky said in a blog on Forbes.
He notes that the supply of wheat from Ukraine is more than 10% of the annual consumption of wheat for 15 countries. For example, this is 28% of the needs of Indonesia, 21% - of Bangladesh, and Egypt imports almost 80% of its wheat from Russia and Ukraine.
13:38 Russian occupiers began to defiantly use Soviet symbols on their clothes and equipment:
13:33 France and Germany, after the annexation of Crimea by Russia, sold military equipment to Moscow for 230 million pounds. It was probably used during the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, writes The Daily Mail.
13:27 On Easter night, a curfew will be in effect in all regions of Ukraine. In most churches there will be no night liturgies, services will be held on Sunday morning. People are asked to avoid large gatherings. The authorities warn that on the eve of the Easter holidays, the Russians may arrange provocations in order to then shift the responsibility to Ukraine.
Easter service in St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv can be watched on the air of the national all-Ukrainian telethon. It will last from 23:30 April 23 until approximately 03:00-03:30 April 24. The broadcast will also go on the Facebook page of the Primate of the OCU, Metropolitan Epiphanius.
13:20 In Mariupol, during internal filtration measures, occupiers announced the registration of housing stock. All real estate, the owners of which do not submit documents, will be "nationalized", said the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko.
13:17 In the Chernihiv region last night, Ukrainian territory was fired from the territory of the Russian Federation at the site of the Gorsk department of the Chernihiv border detachment. About ten grenades fired from abroad from an automatic grenade launcher exploded near the border village of Senkovka, the State Border Service of Ukraine reports.
This is the fourth shelling of Chernihiv region from Russian territory recorded by the border guards after the Ukrainian Defense Forces ousted the invaders from the region.
13:13 Zaluzhny urged not to disseminate information that can be used by the enemy against the Armed Forces of Ukraine: “I urge everyone, especially bloggers with large audiences, to refrain from public assessments of military operations, logistics, support and decisions of commanders. Only the military leadership owns all the information and uses it to repel aggression. The key to the successful destruction of the enemy is the non-dissemination of this information."
13:05 Arakhamia said that Ukraine has problems with replenishing the exchange fund: “I see a lot of comments from angry Ukrainians about why take prisoners. I understand emotions, I myself recently had the same position, but we all must understand that every captured enemy - this is the potential life of our hero for exchange. And with modern artillery battles at long distances, it has become much more difficult to take prisoners, so we have problems with replenishing the exchange fund."
12:34 There are practically no "people's policemen" left in the "DPR" - most of them died in the battles near Mariupol. According to Ukrainian intelligence, in the battles in the Mariupol direction, the invaders involved the entire personnel of the so-called "Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR", including servicemen of the "internal troops of the DPR" and cadets of the "Donetsk Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs".
During the participation in hostilities only in the Mariupol direction, irretrievable losses amounted to up to a thousand people, incl. 26 cadets; sanitary losses exceeded 2800 people. In other directions, irretrievable losses amounted to about 500 people, sanitary - about 2100 people.
The lack of "law enforcement officers" led to a deterioration in the situation with the support of "public law and order" and greatly complicated further forced mobilization. The "Minister of Internal Affairs of the DPR" ordered a special internal investigation against the head of the "Donetsk Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs" and the chiefs of the apparatus of the "VV MVD" on the fact of losses among the personnel.
12:23 In Britain, supermarkets are beginning to limit the sale of butter to one person - because of the war in Ukraine, butter stocks are declining, writes the BBC. Most sunflower oil in the UK comes from Ukraine, and export disruptions have led to a certain shortage and increased demand. The British Retail Consortium says the restrictions are temporary and meant to ensure equal access.
12:14 Podolyak said that it would be possible to rescue people from Mariupol in an exchange format - such an agreement can be reached during a meeting of the negotiating delegations of Ukraine and Russia in the blocked city. At the same time, the defenders of Mariupol will not lay down their arms when leaving. "That is, we give away a certain number of prisoners, but we take our people away. They [the defenders of Mariupol] will definitely not hand over their weapons," the adviser to the head of the OP emphasized.
12:03 Belgium will provide a new batch of military aid to Ukraine, and will also help investigate Russian war crimes, writes RTBF. Brussels has estimated all its deliveries to Ukraine since the beginning of the war at 76 million euros. The Belgian authorities will transfer to Ukraine 5,000 FN Herstal assault rifles, which are decommissioned from the Belgian army, 200 anti-tank weapons, 3,800 tons of fuel and protective equipment.
In addition, the head of the Belgian Ministry of Justice, Vincent Van Kuickenborn, announced the possibility of sending to Ukraine a group of experts on the identification of DVI victims, which had already cooperated with Dutch colleagues in Ukraine after the MH-17 crash.
11:50 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the United States is preparing provocations to accuse the Russian military of using chemical, biological or nuclear weapons in Ukraine. In particular, "the most likely option is a provocation at the chemical and biological facilities in Kharkov and Kyiv, and a provocation at the Zaporozhye NPP is not ruled out."
In addition, as stated by the Russian Defense Ministry, Kyiv "seriously considers the issue of strikes on the storage of radioactive waste in the village of Kamenskoye."
11:42 In Melitopol, Russians are hollowing out copper wire from the walls to be scrapped in Russia, the Defense Forces of the Zaporozhye Territory report.
11:18 Vereshchuk warned that the invaders may try today to organize their own corridor for evacuation from Mariupol to Russia. She stressed that the corridor, organized by the Ukrainian side, works exclusively in the direction of Zaporozhye.
11:10 In the Lviv region, they changed their minds about canceling the curfew for Easter - it will operate, as in the future, from 23:00 to 05:00. Governor Maxim Kozitsky explained this decision by saying that information had been received about the possible activities of sabotage groups. He stressed that the church leadership of the region is in solidarity with this decision, in all churches night services are transferred to the morning hours.
11:07 US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland explained that Washington is negotiating with Ukraine on "security assurances", not guarantees. "Security assurances" is a term in the Budapest Memorandum that provides for no fixed guarantees of protection or collective defence.
11:03 Russian invaders de-energized the pumping station in the Lugansk region with their projectile, as a result, the center of Lisichansk, as well as the cities of Novodruzhesk and Privolye, were left without water, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
10:58 Podolyak said that the main discussion in the negotiating groups is now around security guarantees, issues of territorial structure are taken out of brackets: "Here, Ukraine's position is clear, it was formulated by President Zelensky: ORDLO and Crimea are Ukrainian territories. Now the negotiating groups are working out the text of the basic agreement on security guarantees. It is this document that the guarantor countries will subsequently consider and sign. The Security Guarantee Treaty provides a mechanism for getting out of the war."
10:56 The curfew in Nikolaev on Easter night will operate from 19:00 to 5:00, Governor Vitaly Kim said. Previously, it operated from 21:00 to 6:00.
10:54 The EU is considering three options for restricting Russian oil imports: a complete embargo, the introduction of a cap price, or a mechanism to withhold revenues from the sale of raw materials, writes Bloomberg.
10:52 In the Kharkiv region, the occupiers inflicted 56 strikes in a day, as a result of which two people were killed, 19 more were injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. He said that the Ukrainian defenders continue to hold defensive lines in the region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made a successful counteroffensive. Fierce fighting continued throughout the day.
Ukrainian units drove the enemy troops out of the settlements of Bezruki, Slatino, Prudyanka in the Dergachev region and entrenched themselves in positions.
10:51 Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics explained the importance of NATO expansion: "For those who believe that NATO expansion was a mistake, keep in mind: where NATO is, there is peace, where Russia is, there is war."
10:49 The Wall Street Journal writes about the scheme for circumventing sanctions by Russia on the example of oil supplies. So, the Russian Federation is loading raw materials onto tankers at the address "destination unknown." Further, Russian oil is mixed with other oil, turning into a "Latvian mixture" and "Turkmen mixture" on the market. Since the invasion of Ukraine, 11 million barrels have already been loaded under this scheme.
10:40 Andryushchenko reports on the increased filtration of men in the private sector of the Kalmius and Left Bank districts of Mariupol. The first confirmations of forced mobilization into the "army of the DPR" have been received. Mostly these are young men under 40 years old, they are sent towards Donetsk. Information about their number and further fate is being specified.
10:27 The invaders continue to cover up the traces of their crimes in the center of Mariupol: the rubble of the Drama Theater is currently being cleared. According to the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko, in the process of cleaning they pack the found bodies of the dead in plastic bags, move them by tractors and trucks to the storage facility in the industrial zone near Nikolskoye Highway, and then, as they fill up, they take them to the village. Mangush, where they dump it in an embankment into a 300-meter trench.
Only seconded workers of the so-called "Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR" were involved in cleaning up the bodies of the dead Mariupol residents because of the refusal of local residents to participate in such work.
Andryushchenko recalled that the territory of the square under the Drama Theater was used as a cemetery for soldiers of Nazi Germany, whose bodies were exhumed and reburied only in 2018-2019 during the reconstruction. Now the Russians have once again turned the center of Mariupol into a cemetery.
10:22 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of April 23:
personnel - about 21,600 people were liquidated,
tanks - 854,
armored combat vehicles - 2205,
artillery systems - 403,
MLRS - 143,
air defense systems - 69,
aircraft - 177,
helicopters - 154,
automotive technology - 1543,
ships/boats - 8,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
UAV operational-tactical level - 182,
special equipment - 27,
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
10:19 Vereshchuk said that at 12:00 the evacuation of women, children and the elderly would begin in Mariupol. The meeting point is on the roundabout near the Port City Mall.
09:52 In Bucha, the collection and exhumation of the bodies of civilians who died at the hands of the invaders is coming to an end, the mayor of the city Anatoly Fedoruk said: "The figure that we have today is 412. This means that every third person who died in the Kiev region is from Bucha ."
09:50 Podolyak on Russia's new plans: "Moscow's appetite continues to grow. Now they say that their goal in southern Ukraine is access to Transnistria, where Russians are allegedly also oppressed. It is obvious that the next target of the army of looters and rapists will be Moldova. What again proves that Ukraine today is fighting for the security of Europe."
09:42 The American Institute does not believe in the resumption of negotiations between Kiev and Moscow in the coming weeks, as both sides await the outcome of the ongoing Russian offensive in the Donbas.
Analysts note that the Kremlin is increasingly describing the war in Ukraine as a war with NATO for domestic Russian audiences to explain slower-than-imagined operations and mounting casualties. At the same time, Moscow will not be able to contain NATO expansion and is not in a position to disrupt Ukraine's military cooperation with the West.
Experts also consider it unlikely that the Kremlin will use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine at this stage of the war.
09:36 Russian troops are finishing their regrouping and preparing for a large-scale offensive , Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, said. According to him, all BTG, which were previously concentrated on the territory of Belarus, are now being transferred to the east of Ukraine.
The attacks of the Russians in the east in all directions are attempts to determine the most vulnerable places of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to launch a large-scale offensive.
08:50 G20 cannot function effectively as long as Russia remains a member, Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said.
08:49 The head of the Sumy OVA Dmitry Zhyvitsky said that on April 22, the railway communication between Sumy and Kiev was resumed, temporarily with a change in Nizhyn.
08:48 New York will allocate $2 million from the city budget to help Ukrainian migrants.
08:46 Austria supports all sanctions against the Russian Federation, with the exception of the gas embargo, Finance Minister Magnus Brunner said. According to him, Austrian industry is so dependent on Russian gas that they "have no choice."
08:44 The Czech Republic has applied for the intention to take Russia's place in the UN Human Rights Council, the country's Foreign Ministry said.
08:40 British intelligence notes that, despite increased activity, Russian troops have not made significant progress over the past 24 hours. Ukrainian counterattacks continue to hinder their efforts.
The Russian air and sea forces have not established control in any of the areas due to the effectiveness of Ukrainian air and sea defense.
Intense fighting continues in Mariupol, thwarting Russian attempts to take the city and further slowing down their desired advance in Donbas.
08:38 The Times writes that after the sinking of the cruiser Moskva, the Russian fleet has become more cautious and is increasing missile launches in Ukraine from submarines.
08:35 The UN Secretary General said that after visiting Moscow on April 28, he would arrive in Kiev and hold a meeting with Zelensky: "We need urgent steps to save lives, end human suffering and establish peace in Ukraine."
08:31 British military intelligence commented on Shoigu's statement that "the introduction of new methods of warfare will make it possible to better adapt troops to modern conditions of armed confrontation." In London, they believe that these words are an implicit recognition that the Russian advance is not going the way the Russian leadership expected. It may also indicate the realization that the war is not going according to plan, but it will take time to adapt "tactics, techniques and procedures" and then implement them into operational practice.
This is especially true of mobile ground warfare. In the meantime, the "new methods" have not been introduced, the Russian army will rely on the old ones - primarily on artillery. As a result, it is likely that Russian troops will not be able to quickly break the Ukrainian defense, British intelligence notes.
08:22 Canada has delivered a batch of long-range M777 howitzers to Ukraine, Anita Anand, Minister of National Defense of the country, said. According to CBC News, we are talking about four 155-mm howitzers (range up to 30 km).
Ukraine was also provided with additional ammunition for Carl Gustaf anti-tank grenade launchers. In addition, Anand announced the supply of armored vehicles.
08:20 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, said that the evacuation of Mariupol residents to Zaporozhye will take place today. Only children, women and the elderly are taken out. The column will move out of the city at 11:00.
08:13 The Pentagon is looking for new opportunities for US industry to accelerate the production of "proven, effective weapons" that require minimal training of military personnel and can be quickly exported to Ukraine, writes Reuters.
07:49 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, units of the 64th separate motorized rifle brigade, which took an active part in the massacres, torture and violence of the civilian population in the city of Bucha, are operating in the area of Izyum and have already suffered losses.
07:47 In the Donetsk direction, the enemy is conducting offensive operations along the entire line of collision, the General Staff reports in the morning report . The enemy is concentrating his main efforts on offensive operations in the Severodonetsk direction, exerting intense fire pressure on our troops in order to drive them out and create conditions for the development of an offensive against Slavyansk. The offensive continues in the direction of Novotoshkovsky and assault operations in the areas of Rubizhnoye, Popasnaya and Maryinka.
07:18 The Russians could use tear gas with chemicals in Mariupol, said US Ambassador to the OSCE Michael Carpenter. He said that at the moment experts are studying the information.
05:54 In the Kherson region, Ukrainian defenders destroyed a Russian army-level command post with about 50 senior Russian officers, Arestovich said.
The Soviets were the best at it.
[RIA Novosti] Ukrainian security forces are actively using barrage detachments to prevent desertion, said senior sergeant of the reconnaissance company of the 57th brigade of Ukrainian troops Mikhail Yankovsky, who laid down his arms.
According to the prisoner, the morale of his 57th motorized infantry brigade "was not very good, it got worse and worse over time."
“Since February, no money has been paid, supplies have been bad, food is generally tight. First they stopped delivering hot food, then allowances rarely came at all. The wounded were no longer evacuated,” Yankovsky told reporters.
He added that the command did not find a better way to boost morale than to send barrage detachments, especially after many military men began to lay down their arms and go over to the side of the LPR .
"A group of about 10 people arrived from the center. Our commander presented them as a psychological support group. In fact, this group was like a barrage detachment," the prisoner of war said.
During each battle, they made sure that no one left their positions, "they shot at anyone suspicious without warning."
The leader in the group was a Right Sector activist by the name of Vuiko, the military man said. "A very cruel man, he even had the call sign Punisher," he said.
Also in the group was a sniper with the call sign "Raven".
“During the battle, he took a position in the rear and warned that he would “wet” everyone who was running in the wrong direction,” Yankovsky said.
Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal "the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years."
For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out "demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine", to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for "bloody crimes against civilians" in Donbass.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage - they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:05 AFU fired at the village of Tyotkino in the Kursk region. The customs house, the mill and the railway bridge were damaged. The shelling was carried out from the territory of the Sumy region of Ukraine.
The border checkpoint in this village was already shelled by Ukrainian militants on March 29.
21:00 It turns out that the other day Zelensky (apparently during his regular night marathon with substances) accidentally liked a post on the Instagram of the Russian Defense Ministry. Or not by chance? When you see the launches of our Sarmat rocket, it's hard not to like it. One such missile can completely destroy, for example, Britain. 10 - USA.
20:10 during the day, the Russian Aerospace Forces disabled the logistics terminal at a military airfield near Odessa, where a large batch of foreign weapons received from the United States and European countries was stored.
17:30 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed video destruction of Ukrainian warehouses with ammunition and weapons.
16:06 A rocket attack was launched on Odessa, hit infrastructure facilities - the Ukrainian operational command "South".
16:02 The Russian flag is hoisted over the administration building in Primorsk, Zaporozhye region.
The Russian flag is hoisted over the administration building of the city of Primorsk, Zaporozhye region.
15:35 The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the demining of villages in the Kharkiv region from ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
After determining the degree of danger, the detected ammunition, if possible, is loaded into vehicles equipped for safe transportation with sand flooring and armored plates.
15:34 The Russian military will have enough forces and means to prevent provocations by the West using weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine - Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev.
15:23 Several hits near Odessa. Judging by the video, some oil depot is on fire again. Strong strikes near Nikolaev continue. Ukrainian sources also report strikes in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
15:14 Flight cruise missile over Odessa. There are also reports of powerful explosions in the city. Demilitarization of Ukrainian military facilities continues...
13:38 Air raid in the central and eastern part of Ukraine.
13:15 From the administration of the city of Dniprorudne in the Zaporozhye region, controlled by the Russian armed forces, cut downU krainian trident.
12:40 More than 860 servicemen of the National Guard of Ukraine refused to carry out the criminal orders of their command and deserted from units in March, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
12:16 On April 21, a container with ampoules was dropped from a Ukrainian UAV onto Russian positions, which were supposed to explode when they fall. At the moment, experts are studying their contents. It is possible that we are talking about an attempt by the Ukrainian side to use chemical / biological weapons.
12:14 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that there is a "realistic possibility" of the victory of Russian troops in Ukraine.
11:08 Russian air defense shot down two Tochka-U, one Bayraktar and a Ukrainian Su-25.
According to the Ministry of Defense, Russian aircraft hit over 60 Ukrainian military facilities overnight, including three command posts, 58 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, as well as three warehouses with missiles and other weapons.
11:05 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the opening of humanitarian corridors in Ukraine in seven directions. Servicemen of the Russian army took 79 civilians to the Zaporozhye region and handed them over to Ukrainian representatives, who expressed a desire to evacuate to Ukrainian territory.
11:00 Losses of the Ukrainian side as a result of a special military operation of the RF Armed Forces on April 23, 2022:
During the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 538 people killed, wounded and captured. The total losses in killed, wounded and captured in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, NSU and State Border Service are over 44,000 people.
According to the internal report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, five tanks, 18 armored vehicles, eight field artillery guns and mortars, two MLRS, one short-range air defense system, 23 vehicles and special equipment, one aircraft and nine UAVs were lost.
09:01 Ukrainian authorities threw residents of the Kharkiv region without medicines. People are deficient in insulin and other essential drugs. Responsibility for the health of citizens in the cities liberated from nationalists was assumed by the Russian military. According to them, from next week the supply of medicines, food and humanitarian aid will be resumed.
08:31 In the liberated territories restore monuments to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War.
08:30 "Russia does not abandon its own." Residents of the Kharkov region surrender their weapons and gradually return to civilian life in the settlements liberated by the RF Armed Forces. Our military is helping to restore infrastructure, bringing food and medicine, so the locals have full confidence in the Russian armed forces and are willing to cooperate.
08:17 Walks in the catacombs of Balakleya. Hundreds of thousands of tons of ammunition of various calibers abandoned by Ukrainians.
08:13 In the Kherson region, the fortified area of Ukrainian nationalists, located in the school building, was destroyed.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:41 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 5 civilians as a result of shelling by the AFU of the previously liberated territories of the Republic:
n.p. Mariupol:
- men: born in 1977, 1970;
- women: 1945, born in 1954.
n.p. Talakovka:
- a man born in 1951.
21:01 “Ukraine is not capable of a military deblockade of Mariupol now. And the Ukrainian military who are there understand this. It's a reality" - Zelensky. 20:35 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU at the following addresses:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district):
st. Kastalsky, 4 - the private sector.
n.p. Staromikhaylovka:
- st. Artem, 15 - a direct hit in a private house.
19:40 From under the rubble of the destroyed drama theater in Mariupol, the bodies of 11 dead residents were removed.
The analysis has been going on for the fourth day, a member of the Ministry of Emergency Situations involved in this told TASS. It is noted that work has not yet begun in that part of the building where, judging by the nature of the destruction, the epicenter of the explosion was located.
19:12 Information about the death of a civilian born in 1956 was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC. as a result of the shelling of the AFU of the village "Administrative" of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.
Information was also received about the wounding of a civilian born in 1970. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Yelenovka at the address: st. Moscow, 28.
Damage was recorded as a result of shelling of the VFU of the following settlements:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district):
- st. Druzhnaya, 4/1 - a private residential building.
n.p. Yelenovka:
st. Krupskaya, 23, 108 - private houses;
- st. Pushkina, 39 - a private residential building;
- st. Postal, 57 - a private residential building.
n.p. Luhansk:
st. Lazo, 13 - a private residential building.
18:50 Volunteers of Berdyansk with the support of Russian Guard soldiers handed out humanitarian aid to residents of Primorsk, Berdyansk region. Each family received two food packages. During the distribution of food, at the request of local residents, the participants of the humanitarian convoy removed the Ukrainian flag from the main flagpole of the city.
The procedure itself did not surprise the audience at all, and applause was even heard in the distance. At the same time, the townspeople complained to the National Guard about the threats from the adherents of the Kyiv authorities taking place in the small town. As part of the denazification operation, Russian law enforcement officers will check all complaints received.
18:46 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Makeevka (village of Zemlyanka): four missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
18:41 Information from the field: today, around 12-15 hours over the village of Kremennaya, using the Strela-10 air defense system, twp Ukrainian reconnaissance UAVs Furiya were shot down.
18:40 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
18:35 The forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR and volunteers from local residents continue to take apart the ruins of the drama theater in Mariupol. In four days, 11 bodies of civilians were found, and the dead still remain under the rubble.
18:24 In the battles in the Severodonetsk direction, the Russian army destroyed a large number of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
18:17 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Staromikhaylovka: fired 5 mines in 120 mm caliber.
n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 3 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
17:53 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): 10 mines fired with a caliber of 120 mm.
17:52 As a result of the shelling by Ukrainian militants of the village "Administrative" of the Kuibyshev region, a man born in 1956, who lives on the street, died. Miner's Glory, 14 - death occurred before the arrival of an ambulance.
A civilian resident of Olenivka, a woman born in 1970, received a shrapnel wound. Also in the village along the streets of Pushkin and Pochtovaya, private houses were damaged.
17:51 Former employees of the Mariupol city council report a provocation with a humanitarian corridor organized by a former mayor who fled to Western Ukraine. It was only by a lucky chance and thanks to the competent actions of the RF Armed Forces that civilian casualties were avoided. Please pay maximum attention to this!
17:37 For the successful completion of the combat mission, D. Pushilin awarded 55 fighters of the separate assault battalion "Somalia" named after the Hero of the DPR Guards Colonel Mikhail Tolstykh (call sign Givi). This unit once again proved not in word, but in deed that it rightfully bears the definition of "legendary".
17:09 Local residents report a missile attack on units of the national battalions and the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the Kramatorsk airfield.
17:07 As a result of the shelling of the VFU of the village of Luhanske on the street. Lazo, 13 damaged the roof of a residential building, glazing, garage and car.
17:05 04/23/2022, the formation of the 1st Army Corps of the DPR, with the support of the Russian special operations forces, achieved a major tactical advantage in the area of the temporarily occupied city of Dzerzhinsk of the Donetsk People's Republic. With a precise and well-balanced strike by the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation, the Nazi fortified area on the territory of the pumping station of the third lift of the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal was destroyed, and this site was completely taken under control by a mechanized formation of our armed forces.
According to military experts, this is a turning point in our liberation war - DONBASS is ours! Civilians were not injured during the destruction of the defense line of the pumping station of the third lift, the infrastructure water supply facility will be restored by the specialists of the Republic in the near future, the water supply will also be restored as soon as possible.
16:57 VFU shelled Yelenovka. As a result of the shelling on the street. Krupskaya suffered housing construction.
16:55 Employees of the Petrovsky Eastern Distribution Zone have restored power supply to all consumers.
16:37 During the day on April 23, from 08:00 to 16:00, 167 people, including 23 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye, Novoazovsky district.
Currently, they are at the point of assistance to the evacuated population, which is deployed by the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR.
16:20 Nationalists in Mariupol opened fire on civilians who were about to evacuate along the gum corridor. The gathering place was in the west of the city. The humanitarian corridor was organized by the Russian side at the request of Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk.
16:19 In the liberated Mariupol, law enforcement agencies will soon start working - the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR.
15:53 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU of the following settlements:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district): - st. Safonova, 38, 44 - private residential buildings.
n.p. Yasinovataya: - st. Lesnaya, 51, 53, 57, 118 - private residential buildings.
n.p. Yakovlevka: - st. Yasinovatskaya, 68 - a private residential building.
15:51 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 5 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:27 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded. Zolote-4 by settlement Zolote-5 with the use of 120mm mortars ( four mines) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
15:15 Russian military landscaped memorial to soldiers-liberators in a liberated village in the LPR. This was asked by the local residents themselves, according to the defense department. The military brought paint, brushes and gas equipment with them to light the Eternal Flame. “We immediately coordinated everything and quickly arrived. There were a lot of people who wanted to help, but you can’t take everyone, ”said the platoon commander Maxim.
14:40 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the fact of "shelling by Ukrainian military personnel of Shakhtyorsk" in the Donetsk region.
14:36 Detachments of the NM of the DPR and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation blocked Ukrainian militants in Mariupol
14:34 VFU again fired on the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. As a result of the shelling on the street. Safonov house building was damaged.
14:33 VFU shelled Yakovlevka. As a result of the shelling of the VFU in Yakovlevka, Yasinovatsky district, housing construction on the street was damaged. Yasinovatskaya.
13:36 On the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the injured civilian born in 1962. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Gorlovka (village Pobeda) at st. Nevsky, 180. The victim was taken to the city hospital №2. Damage was also recorded as a result of shelling of the VFU of the following settlements:
n.p. Yasinovataya: - st. Lesnaya, 53 - a private residential building.
n.p. Gorlovka (pos. Pobedy): - st. Nevsky, 175, 177, 178, 180 - private residential buildings.
13:23 Russian tanks fire at Azov's positions in Mariupol.
13:20 Twenty children from the DPR, LPR and Ukraine with mine-explosive injuries are being treated in Moscow hospitals. This was announced by the Minister of Health of Russia Mikhail Murashko.
13:08 VFU shelled Makiivka and Yasinovataya. As a result of the shelling of the village of Zemlyanka in Makiivka, housing construction on the street was damaged. Chelyuskintsev. In Yasinovataya, a house on the street was damaged. Forest.
13:02 Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR brought first humanitarian aid to the liberated city of Kremennaya.
13:00 The Russian Ministry of Defense has information about the preparation by the United States of America of provocations with the aim of accusing the Russian Armed Forces of using chemical, biological or tactical nuclear weapons. This plan has already been developed and is a reaction to Russia's success in conducting a special military operation.
12:40 More than 860 servicemen of the National Guard of Ukraine refused to carry out the criminal orders of their command and deserted from units in March, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
12:16 On April 21, a container with ampoules was dropped from a Ukrainian UAV onto Russian positions, which were supposed to explode when they fall. At the moment, experts are studying their contents. It is possible that we are talking about an attempt by the Ukrainian side to use chemical / biological weapons.
12:14 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that there is a "realistic possibility" of the victory of Russian troops in Ukraine.
11:55 The cancellation of the assault on Azovstal thwarted the provocation of the West with weapons of mass destruction. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, one of the scenarios of provocations that the United States and NATO countries were preparing to accuse Russia of using weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine implied “covert use” to solve an operational task at the plant in Mariupol.
11:51 The commander of the sapper department, Alexander, told how the demining takes place during the special operation and what dangers it is associated with.
11:47 The first 27 orphans from the DPR, among whom there are disabled people, found new families in the Moscow region. These are the first children taken under guardianship by Russian citizens during the conflict in Donbass.
11:46 The introductory gas pipeline to the house on the street was damaged by the shelling of the VFU. Nevsky, 178 in the village. Victory. Glazing in the house is damaged - Prikhodko.
11:44 Fire was detected from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:34 As a result of the morning shelling of the Petrovsky district by Ukrainian punishers, a 13-year-old teenager living down Udaltsova Street, 48 was wounded in the leg. Avtodorozhnaya and st. Starogornyatskaya.
In addition, due to the shelling of the Petrovsky Machine-Building Plant microdistrict, 500 private sector houses along Kosminsky, Zonalnaya, Velyaminov, Fedorovsky, and Udaltsov streets were left without electricity. Information about the destruction is being specified - Kulemzin.
11:03 In Mariupol, they started restoring the seaport. According to the project@wargonzoalready today, the first employees will arrive at the Mariupol seaport, who will begin to restore order, organize administrative work and subsequent restoration.
11:02 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded. Katerynivka Pervomaisk with the use of 122mm artillery guns (six shells) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
10:35 Information was received via the operational line of the DPR JCCC about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the settlement. Share at the addresses: st. Pobedy, 63, 70 - the private sector, the facade, glazing of houses, as well as the gas pipeline were damaged.
As a result of the shelling of the micro-district "Petrovsky mashzavod" in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, about 500 subscribers are currently deprived of power supply.
10:23 Servicemen of the NM DPR are repairing abandoned equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
09:44 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:03 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Experimental - Donetsk (Kyiv district): 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:00 As a result of the shelling of the settlement. Novoaidar in the LPR, a man born in 1986 was wounded, and three residential buildings were damaged - The LPR representation in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
08:46 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:
n.p. Codema - n.p. Zaitsevo South: 10 122mm shells fired;
n.p. Noises - n.p. Gorlovka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:44 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of the night shelling of the AFU of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk at the following addresses:
- st. Avtodorozhnaya, 45, 47 - private sector;
- st. Starogornyatskaya, 62 - the private sector.
As a result of the shelling of N. p. Zaitsevo (southern) recorded damage to the house at:
- st. Kondratenko, 64, 68.
08:40 During the night shelling of the VFU Gorlovsky settlement. Zaitsevo, houses on the street were destroyed. Kondratenko, 64, 68. No casualties - Prikhodko.
08:32 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:00 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of Izotov sh-ty): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Volvo - Center): fired five mines with a caliber of 120mm.
n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Share: 10 122 mm shells were fired.
07:58 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: - n.p. Codema - n.p. Zaitsevo (southern): 10 shells fired caliber 122mm.
07:55 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: - n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
Yuriy Ignat, a Ukrainian air force spokesman, said Ukraine shot down three Russian planes (according to preliminary estimates those are Su-25, Su-34 and Su-35 aircraft), five missiles and 9 UAVs over the past 24 hours.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 24, 2022
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Good morning! Impatiently waiting for intel on the 🇷🇺 army level command post reported as destroyed by 🇺🇦 artillery in Kherson region yesterday. Up to 50 🇷🇺senior brass was in there including the army CoC, according to UA prez adviser.
Imagery from yesterday (April 21) shows 21 Flanker variants and 5 Su-24s present at the Russian airbase in Morozovsk. Given the base's proximity to eastern Ukraine it is likely that the fighters at this base are aiding Russian operations. pic.twitter.com/maxmcvlAm5
In the south, Russian forces had been tied down in Mariupol. Putin’s announcement that they are going to avoid storming Azovstal probably reflects that they can’t afford to lose further manpower and need those units for the Donbas offensive. 7/
Inside the Azovstal steel plant in #Mariupol, where more than 1,000 civilians (children, women, elderly) were hiding in the basement for almost two months.
Children are playing and keeping each other company but they are saying they want to go home, go outside in the sun 💔 pic.twitter.com/W108b6nNZY
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Putin’s announcement that they are going to avoid storming Azovstal probably reflects that they can’t afford to lose further manpower and need those units for the Donbas offensive.
Plus the fact that storming an underground fortress is a bad idea. Fighting a war is about managing your resources, which include time and people. Pissing either one away for no gain is both foolish and fatal.
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List of Russian oligarchs who have been found dead in mysterious circumstance since Jan, per Newsweek
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] So billed by those of the Left.
A big question now is how many of France's 48.7 million eligible voters won't cast ballots out of apathy
Choice between Macron
...center right, elitist, married to his school teacher, and once again the choice of those voting against Le Pen...
and Le Pen
...populist, nationalist, therefore labelled far right by those who despise such things...
often compared to deciding 'between the plague and cholera'
Le Pen, who was behind Macron in the latest opinion polls, was pictured casting her ballot Sunday morning
Macron has watered down a campaign pledge to progressively raise the retirement age in France to 65
Voting stations will close at 8:00 pm local time (1800 GMT), when preliminary results will be released that usually predict the final result with a high degree of accuracy
Update at 12:45 p.m.:
Turnout figures on Sunday showed a 63.23% participation rate by 5 p.m. (1500 GMT), the interior ministry said, below the 65.30% recorded at the same time in the 2017 election.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[FoxNews] Social media giant Twitter slapped a warning on links to firearms news outlet The Reload, before removing the label several hours later Saturday.
The future looks pretty good for offshore drilling. 
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[KYIVINDEPENDENT] On April 23, two months into Russia’s all-out-war against Ukraine, one metro station in Kyiv got crowded again.President Volodymyr Zelensky gave an unusual 
hannels to release their employees. 
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